Hello October

Personally, October is my favourite month of the year for woodland wanders. The echoing bellows of rutting deer and the grunts and squeals of pannage pigs. Heather is still leaving a carpet of mauve, among the patchwork colours of the falling bracken. The trees are just starting to change colour, and ponies are heading to the wood to browse the trees and scratch on a low branch as their coats change and itch. Smartly cut tails (a mark of the drift) disappear into the trees as a cracking comes from under their hooves from the bullet-sized acorns that scatter the ground amongst the fruiting fungi.

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